We had Danny Rabalais on last night in our October Marketing Mastermind meet up. He’s retired, 57, married, a grandpa and is CRUSHING IT. Go figure. His photography business is booming, he has a staff of over 25 worker bees and his main struggle now is: “How Big Do We Want To Grow This?” This […]

“Where should we go for lunch with John?” I asked James. “That panini place downtown…” “Ok, see you there..” Had lunch last week with James and John. I’ve known them both for at least two decades, both still full time photographers. Not just dudes with cameras and tech. But real, legit photographers still making a […]

One of my favorite all time best seminars I personally experienced, first hand, like watching a master of masters in action, was way back when I organized a speaking gig with Al Gilbert. Al did a live demo on how he shoots, poses, lights and controls a session. He somehow he had contacted our city […]

There are critics everywhere. Not a job I would want. Good thing there are more creators than critics. I’d rather be a creator truth be told. Maybe there’s a legit reason we have critics. Maybe not. Maybe they keep us on our toes. Maybe it weeds out the weak and infirm. ‘Thins the herd’ so […]

Every once in a while you gotta shake things up. But you need to be careful. Whenever I’ve thrown the proverbial “grenade in the tool shed” I am aware of some key influences, such as: what is the worse thing that can happen? can I work with that situation, or the unknown if that’s the […]

Every time I find myself whining about something, I say to myself “Punch that drama queen in the face…” I know, sounds a little aggressive. But when it comes to whining, blaming and complaining, I tend to over react. It’s my nature. Somewhere, somehow, someplace a long time ago I got the message. And that […]

I was chatting with a photographer not so long ago. He asked me this question: “Rob, what’s your secret?” As if there’s a “secret”, once discovered, all one has to do is wave a wand and magic happens. Instead of blowing smoke his way, I said this: “There’s a lot a of money on the […]

Whenever the queen bee Tina and I find ourselves in the big smoke, aka hogtown, aka Toronto, we invariably make our way to Second City for a fun time and many laughs. One of our favorite things. And it’s only like $30.00 bucks a person. A few weeks ago we did just that. And we […]